Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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19537i
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Two elderly men standing in a garden of potted plants. The man on the left is short, bearded and wears a hat, the other is tall, fat, bald, clean-shaven, and bespectacled. Each holds a fan in his right hand and beads in his left. Two negatives combined on one plate

Publication/Creation

1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

Chinese priest, Canton Bears Thomson's negative number: "644"

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, 1873-4, vol. I, pl. XVIII, "The Abbot of the Temple". The man on the right only

Notes

This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library

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Wellcome Collection 19537i

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